This photo was taken on August 10th 2017, Za Le village, Leik Tho sub-township, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District by a KHRG researcher. A villager said, “The Myanmar government has finished building the clinic in 2016 but the clinic is closed [was never opened] because there were no medical supplies.”[Photo: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on August 13th 2017, at Thandaung Myo Thit Hospital, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District by a KHRG researcher. A villager went to the hospital to get medical treatment. Most of the patients are children who suffered from seasonal flu. [Photo: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on June 23rd 2017 at the sub-middle school of Maung Nwet Gyi village, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District. KNU (Karen National Union) health workers were traveling around the KNU controlled area and providing healthcare services and medicine. They also offered vaccines for the sub-middle school students. [Photo: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on August 2nd 2017 in B--- village, Sauk Pin Chaung village tract, Toungoo Township, Toungoo District by a KHRG researcher. Soldiers from Ba Yin Naung Army military army camp [Tatmadaw] confiscated the villagers’ ancestral land and gardens. The villagers were trying to speak out to reclaim their lands during this meeting with U Myint Soe from the Independent Labour Union. [Photo: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on August 10th 2017, in Kaw Bat Chan village and Than Moe Taung village, Than Moe Taung village tract, Leik Tho Town, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District by a KHRG researcher. In the route between Kaw Bat Chan village and Than Moe Taung village, many villagers’ lands and garden were used for the construction of electricity poles. The villagers did not receive any compensation for the affected plants in their garden. Moreover, the villagers worried about the consequence or changes [caused by similar development initiatives] in the future. [Photo: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on July 25th 2017 in Taw Pya Gyi village, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District by a KHRG researcher. In order to be able to use electricity in the village, villagers collected the money from the community to buy a power transformer which can produce 200 watt and costs 22,000,000 kyats (US $16,280.00). They started using it on July 17th 2017 but the electrical current short circuited the following day. The villagers reported this problem to the Department of Electric Power but they [Department of Electric Power] did not come to monitor what happened. The villagers also are unsure about the exact details of what actually happened. [Photo: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

These photos were taken [of a villager’s pictures] on August 2nd 2017 in F--- village, G---village, H---village, Shauk Pin Chaung village tract, Toungoo District. [The first photo shows an unexploded mortar left on villaters’ land. The second photo shows the rubber plantation where trees were cut and damaged during the training]. Ba Yin Naung military troops confiscated villagers’ lands to use as a military training ground for heavy weapons shooting [training]. From July 12th 2017 to July 15th 2017, the military training soldiers started shooting in the plantations [on the confiscated land]. Moreover, they also cut the rubber trees. The mortar shells and unexploded mortars were left [on the ground] and not collected. Therefore, many villagers were frightened and scared. Many rubbers trees were also cut without providing any compensation. Many villagers have lost many of their rubber plantations. [Photos: KHRG]

Toungoo Situation Update: Thandaunggyi Township, June to August 2017

3rd January 2018

Location:

Toungoo (Taw Oo) District

This photo was taken on July 22nd 2017 in Thandaung Myo Thit town, Thandaunggyi Township, Toungoo District by a local villager. The car accident occurred in Taw Pya Gyi village, when the private car of a Tatmadaw soldier (part of the Bu Yin Naung military army) crashed into villagers, houses, bikes and cars. [Photo: KHRG]